Czech shx font file for AutoCAD R14/2000

Does anyone know shx font file for AutoCAD R14/2000 where the Czech special
characters would be in same places as in Czech keyboard?

For example if you write numbers 1-9 in Wordpad or in AutoCAD 2006, it
works:

+escrzýáí

But in AutoCAD 2000 the characters are not in the same order as in Czech
keyboard.
(hope these character examples shows ok):

+ìsèøzýáí

The MTEXT command knows how to handle the problem but you can't use mtext
entities as block attributes so that won't help

Br,
Harri

 

Which font are you using?

If you have a font file with all the characters defined, then setting
up and using an appropriate language and keyboard in WinXP should see
the characters appear.

If you are using an old SHX font file, then you can only get what is
defined in it.

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I'm using simplex.shx that came with AutoCAD 2006. The AutoCAD 2000
simplex.shx works the same way, the font file has no affect.

AutoCAD 2006 uses some kind of unicode format so if I look the text with
LIST command it shows like this (includes \U+ unicode codes):

+\U+011Bs\U+010D\U+0159zýáíé

But in AutoCAD 2000 LIST command shows only special characters. The
characters are shown correctly in screen but in wrong places.

On the other hand the AutoCAD 2000 MTEXT command works fine, it adds some
kind of codepage specification "c238" to the text string. It's easy to test
with AutoCAD 2000, just write numbers 1,2,3...0 with CS keyboard, the result
if different whether you use TEXT or MTEXT command. I think the TEXT command
can only show texts with current SYSCODEPAGE setting, it cannot convert the
codepage like the MTEXT can. This results that you have to have a shx file
with fixed codepage conversion, in other words characters in "incorrect"
places.

I found a Czesh web site:

http://www.aac-solutions.cz/en/

which states that they have done their own "National fonts", quote:

"All fonts include Czech national characters with accents and all other
East-European accented characters in code-pages DOS852, WIN1250, Cyrillic or
in UNICODE"

So I think the only way is to edit .shp source to move the character
positions or to buy these ready made font files e.g. from this Xanadu.

Br,
Harri